AdvertisementHow NPR covered the fall of the Berlin WallNovember 07, 2022Jack MitchellfacebookEmailWest-Berliner climb on the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, to ask for its fall. After months of mass protests against regime and amid a widening exodus of citizens to the West via Hungary, thousands of East Berliners on Nov. 9, 1989 started streaming toward checkpoints leading to West Berlin. (AFP via Getty Images)